On the night of September 24, 1862, the second night of the eighth month of the second year of Wu Junqixiang and the second year of Tongzhi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this is a day that will go down in history. Because of the rampant traitors and the rampant internal traitors, the impregnable city defense of Tianjing City, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, suddenly cracked a big hole from the inside, and the Shence Gate, which was located directly north of Tianjing City, was suddenly in chaos, and the fragile city was about to be directly exposed to Wu Jun's blade.

However, the supreme Heavenly Father in the worship of God did not abandon his loyal followers, and the Taiping army still had a chance to plug this gap, because the Taiping traitors did not trust each other, did not dare to communicate with each other in advance, exchanged hole cards with each other, and all kinds of inconsistencies and inconsistencies, which led to the great traitor Wu Jianying being forced to act in advance, triggering a series of chain reactions that no one could have predicted in advance, and then led to Wu Jianying, Xu Lianfang, Fang Youcai and Liu Yulin, the four rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, fighting within the Shence Gate. Fighting each other to the death, not only consuming each other's combat strength, but also completely missing the best opportunity to join forces to make chaos, plus the Wu army had almost no preparation in advance, so it is still a huge unknown who will die in the battle of Shence Gate.

The first to wake up was Wu Jianying, who could have led all the rebels to join forces to mutiny, combined with various clues found in advance, Wu Jianying suddenly discovered a cruel and ridiculous fact, the four armies that were fighting in Shence Gate were probably all to meet the Wu army into the city. Therefore, Wu Jianying hurriedly turned the army from offensive to defensive to avoid unnecessary attrition among the rebels, and hurriedly sent envoys with white flags to contact other rebel leaders, in a vain attempt to end the rebel civil war as soon as possible.

Heavenly Father's divine power, Wu Jianying thought too simply, in the melee, guns came and went, and several rebel armies with ghosts were all fighting hard to survive, how easy could the messenger sent by Wu Jianying in a hurry get in touch with other rebel leaders? Therefore, after a few messengers with white flags were sent out, not only did they not see the other rebel leaders quickly, but on the contrary, they were quickly killed by random guns - in the dark, it was difficult for the rebel soldiers to see clearly the white flag in the hands of Wu Jianying's envoys, and they only shot when they saw someone approaching, and the accidental injury rate was of course very high.

Fortunately, the envoy sent to contact Fang Youcai was finally not killed by indiscriminate shooting - he was only injured, and then the injured envoy kept shouting 'Don't shoot, it's your own people' and something like that, and it happened to be heard by the grassroots generals under Fang Youcai's command, who thought it was strange and sent someone to arrest the envoy. Then the envoy hurriedly introduced that Wu Jianying was also preparing to welcome Wu Jun into the city, and Fang Youcai, who suddenly realized it, hurriedly sent someone to send the envoy to Fang Youcai, but Fang Youcai was of course unbelievable when he heard it, and asked in surprise: "Shi Tian'an is also preparing to welcome the king of Zhennan into the city?" Why didn't he say it earlier? ”

"Fang Tianyan, in those previous situations, we dare to casually say that he is already the king of Zhennan?" Wu Jianying's envoy said with a sad face: "If the news leaks and is known by the Heavenly King or the Loyal King Chitose, will Shi Tianan and we still live?" ”

"I'm grass!" Fang Youcai scolded a swear word, and said with a smile: "No wonder you suddenly assembled the army at night, I thought it was my side that leaked the news, and Shi Tianan wanted to attack me, so I was scared to hurry up." I knew that you were preparing to welcome the army of King Zhennan into the city, so I should join forces with you! ”

It's useless to repent of the intestines, the soldiers of the dead rebels can't survive, so Fang Youcai can only quickly send an order to let his subordinates know the identity of Wu Jianying's allies, and then listen to the advice of Wu Jianying's envoy, and hurriedly send someone to contact Liu Yulin, who was in the same formation before, to introduce his friendly identity to Liu Yulin. At the same time, Wu Jianying's side also sent envoys out of the battle, and continued to contact Liu Yulin and Xu Lianfang under the white flag, and did his best to end the melee as soon as possible.

"I'm grass! It turns out that Brother Wu and Lao Fang are our own people! Say it early! If you said it earlier, you need to fight so badly and kill so many of your own people in vain? Don't fight, don't fight! Don't fight with Lao Fang Brother Wu's army, it's all your own people! Own!! ”

After another period of time, after the unremitting efforts of the envoys of Wu Jianying and Fang Youcai, Liu Yulin finally let out a scream of regret and regret, and finally ended the confused melee between the three rebel armies of Wu and Liu Fang. However, unfortunately, because there were relatively few traitors in Xu Lianfang's army, the Shencemen rebels who followed Xu Lianfang were surrounded by Shencemen soldiers loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the envoys sent by Wu Jianying and Fang Youcai were never able to get in touch with Xu Lianfang, and the melee of Shencemen continued. At the same time, what is worse is that Li Rongfa, who galloped back to Liuxiang on horseback, had already launched an attack with the elite troops of the Taiping Army, frantically attacking Wu Jianying and Fang Youcai, two rebels from behind, and began to suppress the rebellion at any cost.

In fact, Wu Jianying's army combat effectiveness is not bad - in history, Liu Mingchuan, a famous general of the Huai Army, has greatly increased his strength after incorporating Wu Jianying's troops, and his department has become the number one elite unit of the Huai Army. However, it is still a pity that the three traitors, Wu Jianying, Fang Youcai and Liu Yulin, all started in a hurry, and they all started in a hurry when they each pulled an army loyal to them, and they failed to concentrate their forces together, and they also missed a large number of elite soldiers, so as Li Rongfa's army was formed into a formation and put into the counterinsurgency battlefield, the rebels were soon at a disadvantage.

There is also a bad thing, after learning the truth, many soldiers of Wu Jianying's department took up arms one after another, resolutely launched an attack on their comrades who shamelessly betrayed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and joined Li Rongfa's counterinsurgency army on their own. And the defenders of Shencemen, who are loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, have also hurriedly elected a new leader to command the battle in place of Xu Lianfang, while frantically shooting Xu Lianfang's rebels who have been surrounded in the urn city of Shencemen, while stubbornly resisting the impact of Wu Jianying and other rebels on Shencemen, gritting his teeth to buy time for Li Rongfa to quell the rebellion. Therefore, no matter how Wu Jianying, Fang Youcai, and Liu Yulin urged the attack, they just couldn't quickly break through the interception of the defenders of the Shence Gate, get in touch with Xu Lianfang, who was trapped in the city of the Shence Gate urn, and completely dredge the road of the Wu army into the city.

"Send someone to tell Fang Youcai that he and I will join forces to intercept Li Rongfa and buy time for Liu Yulin! The battlefield there in Shencemen is small, and the troops can't be spread, so Liu Yulin's army is called to do it! Tell Liu Yulin that if you want to survive, you have to take down the Shence Gate and open the road in and out of Tianjing City! ”

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Wu Jianying, who was still quite clear-headed, made the right choice in time and arranged the most correct offensive and defensive tactics. At the same time, relying on the residual power of the army in peacetime, Liu Yulin and Fang Youcai did not mind letting Wu Jianying, who was currently the weakest in their department, continue to command themselves, and they all carried out Wu Jianying's orders without blinking an eyelid. The melee of Shence Gate also quickly entered a new situation, Li Rongfa led the army to fight from the south to the north, Wu Jianying and Fang Youcai joined forces to block Li Rongfa's army, Liu Yulin's army attacked Shence Gate from the two roads above and below the city, and the defenders of Shence Gate who were loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stubbornly resisted Liu Yulin's rebels while stepping up their annihilation of Xu Lianfang's rebels.

Under such circumstances, if the elite main force of the Wu army can rush to the Shence Gate in time and attack the Shence Gate in a big way under the response of the rebels, then at least ninety percent of them are sure to break through the Shence Gate in one fell swoop and completely open the way into the city. But the reality made a big joke, because of Wu Chaoyue's misjudgment and lack of preparation, when the fighter plane that could be met but not sought appeared, the Wu army was able to quickly put into the battlefield, but only the Wu army Hu Huaizhao was originally stationed outside the Shence Gate and was responsible for blocking the Taiping army's road out of the city, six battalions with a strength of 3,000, of which only three battalions were equipped with the Wu army's main battle rifle and firing pin gun, which was the elite soldiers of the Wu army.

The distance is a little far away, no matter how fast Wu Chaoyue's herald messenger is, it was only at half past nine that night that Wu Chaoyue's order was sent to Wu Jun's veteran Hu Huaizhao, after learning Wu Chaoyue's order requirements and not knowing when he would get reinforcements, Hu Huaizhao, who had followed Wu Chaoyue to participate in the defense of Shence Gate that year, frowned a little. But soon, Hu Huaizhao cheered up again, laughed and said, "Okay! It's my luck! The old brother who followed the king of Zhennan to kill the long hair to defend the Shence Gate, now in addition to the king of Zhennan, although there are still one hundred and nineteen left, but this will be here in the Shence Gate, it is me! Take down the Shence Gate, open the way into the city from the Shence Gate, and let the one hundred and eighteen old brothers blush! ”

"General Hu, please give an order!" Cheng Jiaxie, the elite battalion officer of the general, said in an excited tone, and couldn't wait to give his hand and said: "The last general asks for an order, lead the soldiers and horses of this battalion to serve as the vanguard, and attack the Shence Gate!" ”

One of the three elite battalions of Hu Huaizhao's army was directly subordinate to Hu Huaizhao, and seeing that Cheng Jiaxie was grabbing merit, Zhou Anyu, another elite battalion officer, of course, immediately jumped out and asked for an order to serve as a pioneer, and the battalion officers of the remaining three ordinary battalions were not to be outdone, and also asked for orders and said: "General Hu, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and attack the Shence Gate!" ”

After rolling his eyes a few times, Hu Huaizhao unexpectedly handed over the pioneer task to Xu Shugang, the battalion officer of an ordinary battalion, and arranged for the battalion officer of another ordinary battalion to lead the army to stay in the camp, and then said to Cheng Jiaxie and Zhou Anyu: "Don't rob it, now the urn city gate of the Shence Gate has not been opened, and someone has to blow up the city gate first." The city of Shence Gate Urn is now in chaos again, and after the city gate is blown open, there will definitely be many long hairs rushing out, and when the time comes, the striker will have to be responsible for distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy, and guarding the road, you two, are responsible for leading the troops into the city! ”

Facts have proved that the arrangement of Hu Huaizhao, the old man of the Wu army, is very appropriate and correct, and when the five battalions of the Wu army under the leadership of Hu Huaizhao hurried to the outside of the Shence Gate, which was already in full swing, there was no time to prepare too many siege weapons, and even less had time to pull the artillery outside the city to cover the artillery fire, and the only way for the Wu army to break the city was to use Dana explosives to blow up the urn city gate of Shence Gate. However, because Xu Lianfang's rebels had been surrounded by the Taiping army in the urn city of Shence Gate, the section of the city wall above the city gate was still controlled by the Taiping army, and they had just seen the Wu army approaching and shouted and opened fire to prevent the Wu army from approaching the city gate - in such a situation, it was obviously a waste of combat power to let the elite battalion take on the heavy responsibility of blasting and charging.

Under the command of the forward general Xu Shugang, three Wu army demolition teams successively carried explosives and rushed to the city gate to place explosives. However, the blazing Shence Gate tower completely illuminated the road under the city, and the Wu army demomen had no place to hide, coupled with the frantic resistance of the defenders in the city, the three Wu army demolition teams failed to succeed, and the first two demolition teams were already killed and wounded before they could break through the stone bridge over the moat, and all the members were either dead or wounded, unable to continue fighting, and had to flee back in embarrassment. The third demolition team was even more miserable, when three people were sacrificed and rushed to the city with their lives, several gunpowder kegs were suddenly thrown down from the city, and the gunpowder kegs fell to the ground and exploded, and the explosives bags carried by the Wu army demolition team were ignited and detonated, and the remaining three Wu army demomen were all blown to pieces.

"Brother Hu, there are too many long hairs in the city, and the guns and bullets are too dense, so you can't get to the city? Can you send me more grenadiers to give me a little more time to prepare for ...... artillery fire? ”

In desperation, Xu Shugang, who was in charge of directing the blasting, could only run to Hu Huaizhao to complain, intending to ask for more grenadier cover, but Hu Huaizhao was stunned and interrupted angrily: "Then you just asked for the order to fight the vanguard?" Talking big to make me play, isn't it? Give you a little more time to prepare, do you know how much time we have left? What if the longhair that received us in the city is dead? If we miss this fighter and want to break through the Divine Gate, how many more brothers will we die?! ”

"Keep going! If you want to change people to play forwards, you can take off all your clothes and pants, and get out of Lao Tzu with your bare ass! Expulsion from the military! ”

Xu Shugang was also a little bloody, and even his eyes were a little red after listening to Hu Huaizhao's angry scolding, and without saying a word, he rushed back to his battalion, first picked a few people out from his own personal soldiers, rearranged a demolition team, and proclaimed himself the captain of the demolition team, and then personally carried the explosives bag, and yelled at his deputy battalion officer: "From now on, the army will give you command!" I can't come back, you're the battalion officer! Command the rest to continue, no matter how many people die, give Lao Tzu to blow up the door of the gods! ”

The deputy battalion officer did not answer, but gave a military salute to Xu Shugang with tears in his eyes, and the other Wu soldiers next to him followed suit, Xu Shugang stopped talking, picked up the explosive bag and rushed towards the stone bridge across the river, and the five soldiers who fought down followed with a thick wooden board that could barely resist Mini bullets, and the deputy battalion officer shouted and ordered, let the battalion officers and soldiers shoot desperately, bombarding grenadier shells on the Shence Gate, and covering the boss to personally charge.

In the rain of bullets, the five pro-soldiers who held the thick wooden planks to protect Xu Shugang quickly sacrificed two, and then two pro-soldiers unfortunately lay down on the stone bridge across the river, and finally only one pro-soldier was left to protect Xu Shugang and rushed across the moat stone bridge, as a result, the defenders of the city repeated their old tricks, and quickly dropped a few powder kegs, Xu Shugang was already prepared for this, and immediately a lazy donkey rolled and rolled into the dead corner next to the stone bridge of the moat, dodging the shock wave and flames of the explosion of the powder keg, and his last pro-soldier was slightly slower because of his movements, in the blink of an eye, surrounded by the flames of gunpowder, died a miserable death.

The bullets hit like splashing water again, Xu Shugang, who had already been hit by four bullets, rolled and crawled, stumbled and rushed to the city gate of Shence Gate, and he didn't have time to place explosives and transfer his hide, so he directly pressed the explosive bag on the city gate and directly pulled the lead, yelling: "Dad, mother, the child is going first!" ”

The explosives package exploded violently, Xu Shugang was shattered, and the urn city gate of the Shence Gate was also shattered, revealing the city gate corridor that was illuminated by fire, and there were many Xu Lianfang rebel soldiers who were frantically smashing and destroying the jack gate. In the distance, Hu Huaizhao put down the binoculars with tears in his eyes, and said in a choked voice: "Go and report to the king of Zhennan immediately, and ask him to give Xu Shugang the first credit for breaking the door." Besides, take two hundred taels of silver from my savings and send it to Xu Shugang's family. ”

When the soldiers on the left and right agreed, encouraged by the successful blasting of the Wu army, the Taiping army traitors under Xu Lianfang's department worked hard to chop one by one, and the jack gate on the inner side of the urn city of Shence Gate suddenly fell to the ground, and the city gate was completely unblocked, and the Taiping army traitors in the urn city also cheered and rushed out of the city, escaping, and they couldn't wait to shout, "Master Jun, kill in!" Kill in! We burned the two inner city gates, and we smashed the jack gates, so you can enter the city directly! You can go straight into town! ”

Without the greeting of these traitors, the soldiers of Xu Shugang's battalion had already charged forward under the command of the deputy battalion officer, and while ordering the Taiping traitors who had gone out of the city to surrender to lay down their weapons, they quickly occupied the city gate and the road. At this moment, the hand of time has just pointed to 10:16 in the evening.